The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA” or “Recovery Act”), Pub. L. No. 111-5, appropriates $1B for grants or contracts under section 481A of the Public Health Service Act to construct, repair or renovate existing non-Federal research facilities. Two related FOAs for construction, renovations and repairs to extramural facilities have been released in response to the Recovery Act.

The purpose of this notice is to inform the biomedical and behavioral research community that a Web Seminar will be conducted regarding the application process for RFA-RR-09-007 (Core facilities improvement projects) and RFA-RR-09-008 (Construction, renovation and repair improvement projects). The Web Seminar specifics are:

This Web Seminar will provide technical assistance in the preparation of construction and core facilities improvement applications.